K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear. Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.” But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. The Internet business changed, completely, in 1996 when the AT&T WorldNet Service began offering"all-you-eat" (u nlimited access) pricing for Internet access. We spent much of 1997 renegotiating thousands of these deals. Others failed.

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